Illustrative: tracers on the Lorenz attractor, a canonical coupled nonlinear system

Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium

Risk, taught as one connected system

Water, finance, health, infrastructure, technology, governance and the systems that join them, taught as one field and free to study.

Faculties
9
Departments
32
Disciplines
118
Nexus Standards taught
258
01Faculties

Nine faculties, joined by cross-faculty programmes

Hover a faculty · pick a programme23 programmes

Tick · one disciplinePastel tick · open courseLine weight · shared programmes

Cross-faculty programme

Water, energy and food

Decisions on water, energy and food constrain each other; this programme studies them together.

Faculties2of 9
Disciplines22in reach
Open5courses

cross-faculty programmes

Each joins two or three faculties
03Learning

How learning works

Four kinds of course on five streams; every course closes with assessed work and a completion record.

04Places

Every faculty teaches on a real place

A twin of one real place per faculty, built from open data with each layer's source and date, with the faculty's research hub.

05What is changing now

What is changing now

The newest developments cited on discipline pages across the faculties, sources checked on 16 October 2026.

06Standards

258 standards taught

The standards the ecosystem uses to identify, describe and cite evidence, and how the Academy's disciplines teach toward them.

07Take part

How to take part

Learn on your own, research with open data, or bring a team, an institution or a country.

ReportsContribute

Contribute evidence from this page.

Nexus Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.

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Start with one place

Open a faculty, look at its twin, and take the first open course of the discipline closest to your work.